OOP: Re: Neville's Plant, Snape's Past, Dumbledore and aberforth, Young Death Eaters?

[donna_immaculata]

No: HPFGUIDX 64324

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Melanie Black <princessmelabela at y...> wrote:
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> Star Dreams wrote: 
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> First the password to the Gryffindor common room happens to be 
> Mimbulus Mimbletonia for some unfathomable reason...but then the next 
> we hear of the plant is on the train ride away from Hogwarts. (Or did 
> I miss an instance in there?) What is the point of this rare yet ugly 
> plant? Or is this one of those threads that was faintly touched upon 
> in book 5 but will become more important in the final two books?
> My reply:
> When I first heard that it was the password I thought maybe they chose that as the password so that this time Neville would actually stand a chance at remembering it.  :)
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> ~Melanie


Donna's reply:
Neville's plant has already played a great role: on the train, he 
tells the others that it's got an amazing defensive mechanism. Then, 
he, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Luna get splayed with the plant's 
juice. These are exactly the people who get to fight the Death Eaters 
at the end - and they all survive! Someone on the list has posted the 
question how the children could successfully fight a group of fully 
qualified Death Eaters, but maybe the Mimbulus Mimbletonia is at 
least part of the answer? Maybe its defensive mechanism is somehow 
transmitted on the person who gets in touch with the plant's essence?

Donna Immaculata 

 

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